Did someone say hubris?

Sometimes a story comes along for which the phrase "beggars belief" appears to have been tailor-made. Today, courtesy of the Press Association, we bring you unedited the musings of Big Brother also-ran
Makosi Musambasi on terrorism, celebrity, and the long arm of the law. There are lots of gems in here, but the last line ticked us particularly. Did someone say
hubris?

Sometimes a story comes along for which the phrase "beggars belief" appears to have been tailor-made. Today, courtesy of the Press Association, we bring you unedited the musings of Big Brother also-ran Makosi Musambasi on terrorism, celebrity, and the long arm of the law. There are lots of gems in here, but the last line ticked us particularly. Did someone say hubris?

MAKOSI: TERRORISTS TREATED BETTER THAN I WAS

By Anita Singh, PA Showbusiness Editor

Big Brother's Makosi hit out today at immigration officials threatening to deport her from the country and complained: "Terrorists are treated better than me."

The 24-year-old Zimbabwean has been told to leave Britain for breaking the terms of her working visa.

She quit her nursing job to appear on the Channel 4 reality show. Makosi was stopped by police on Monday over a driving matter and officers passed her on to immigration officials to be questioned about her visa. Today she said: "Terrorists don't even go through that. Terrorists are paid £2,000 a week to look after their health and stuff. A lot of illegal immigrants are paid to stay in this country and are fed by taxpayers. I am here paying my taxes and working but I'm treated like a thug."

Makosi said she was stopped by police on the M25 for not wearing a seatbelt. She recalled: "They checked my details and said there was a flag on my name telling them I had overstayed my visa so they needed to take me in for questioning. The immigration person took four hours to come out. They took my fingerprints and a DNA swab from inside my cheek. I felt like a criminal. It was not nice at all."

Makosi's visa was curtailed and she plans to launch an appeal. The former Big Brother housemate said she hopes to return to nursing - but cannot go back yet because she is too famous. "I have a lot of magazine and TV things coming up and I can do a lot for charity. After that I can go back to my old life," she explained. "If I was Mary or Lesley or even Saskia and I was a nurse, I could go back to nursing because they are not in the papers or magazines every day. But I couldn't walk back on to a ward now. Instead of reversing heart attacks, I would cause heart attacks."

Makosi was speaking during an in-store signing at the Carphone Warehouse in central London.